After you have graduated from Notre Dame, you may think that you are no longer eligible to apply for any number of prestigious awards, such as a Rhodes or a Fulbright. You may also think that you no longer have access to the centers and institutes that helped you as an undergraduate.…

In February of 2016, two CUSE Sorin Scholars, Lily Kang (2016, information technology management and sociology) and Ian Tembe (2017, chemical engineering and philosophy) came to the office to discuss an idea for a project - they would ask graduating seniors and Notre Dame alumni to write letters addressed to their freshman selves and would publish them in an anthology. With the support of CUSE, Dean Hugh Page and First Year of Studies, and many other groups on campus, Ian and Lily were able to collect 65 letters and work with Corby Publishers to produce "A Letter to my Freshman Self: Domers Reflect on their Undergraduate Experience, which was published in June 2016,

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Daniela Lugo Romero (class of 2018, civil engineering) was born and raised in Ecuador, a place she describes as a small country with an incredible amount of cultural and natural richness. She was raised with two sisters, aged fifteen and three, and a large extended family who would gather together weekly—30 people meeting up every weekend.…

Kendra Reiser (class of 2015, psychology) spent her senior year of high school applying for colleges where she could find a home, a family. A place that she could return to in the decades following graduation and feel just as connected as she did when she first arrived as a freshman.

Do you still remember the first day on campus as a student? Did you know where you would be today? While the past three and a half years have gone by quickly, you must have come away with unique memories, lessons, and perhaps both pleasant and unpleasant surprises—experiences you are excited to share with your freshman self.…

"The summer after my freshman year, I remember I was processing deer mice in an old garage in Nebraska where I was assisting with field work during my internship at Harvard University," said Xu. "I looked around and saw there were spider webs clinging everywhere. After a year of working with eDNA in Dr. Lodge’s lab at Notre Dame, I thought to myself, 'If you can find DNA of fish in the water it's swimming in, there has to be DNA of spiders and maybe even their dinner on spider webs.'"

When Angela Adduci was born in May 1994, she already had seven older siblings: six brothers and one sister. She was ten years younger than the seventh child in her family. By the time she walked onto Notre Dame’s campus in August 2012, she had seven younger sisters as well. While being the middle child of 15 seems exciting enough to most, Angela’s family was just a little different. All of her younger sisters were adopted: five sisters from Vietnam and two sisters from China, both with disabilities.